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massive and equal to 10 percent of Jordan's population in 1990. Importantly, these refugees were able to have a large and …To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little …
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This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and … relative to men. The paper does not find any significant effect of immigration on wages and employment, which indicates that …, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an …
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to household well-being, prices, employment, and wages. All studies can be classified as ex post quasi … nonsignificant, and 6 to 20 percent show a decrease in household well-being. The analyses on employment and wages show positive and … significant results for 22 to 25 percent of the results. Negative results on employment and wages relate to young and informal …
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Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), these are the integration in the country of destination, relocation in a third … ancillary issues are to be addressed: (i) the macroeconomic impact of refugees and of their return; (ii) the labor market impact … of refugees and of their return, (iii) the fiscal impact of refugees and of their return; and (iv) how return policy …
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Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the … employment levels and average wages by gender and consider whether export destination or the competiveness of economies matters … improves female employment but reduces overall average wages and female wages. Increasing exports to the European Union as well …
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This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education) has increased during economic crises....
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wage is long overdue, due to decreasing nominal wages in real terms, policy needs to strike a fine balance between …
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